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Of gods, gifts and ghosts : spiritual places in urban spaces / Terence Heng.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Abingdon : Routledge, 2020Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780429792779
  • 0429792778
  • 0429792786
  • 9780429792786
  • 9780429437045
  • 0429437048
  • 9780429792762
  • 042979276X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No title; Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 203.0951095957 23
LOC classification:
  • DS609.9 .H46 2020
Online resources:
Contents:
<P>1. Introduction</P><P>2. Visualising the (Spiritual) City</P><P>3. The Social Dead, The Agentic Spirit</P><P>4. The Hungry Ghost Festival and Aesthetic Juxtaposition</P><P>5. <I>Tang-ki</I> as Embodied Spiritual Capital and Arbiters of Sacred Space</P><P>6. Intimate Sacred Spaces -- The Body and Home</P><P>7. The Ebb and Flow of Sacred Spaces</P><P>8. Movement and Motion in Sacred Flowscapes</P><P>9. Conclusion</P><P>Epilogue</P>
Summary: How do individuals inscribe their spiritual identities and diasporic ethnicities in the city? Through a series of sociological and photographic essays, Terence Heng maps the various rituals, collectives, individuals and events that characterise Chinese religion practices in Singapore. From spirit mediums to the Hungry Ghost Festival, each chapter engages with the social, the spatial and the ephemeral, and in so doing it will explore the significance and relevance of Chinese religion in a secular nation-state; reveal the strategies and tactics used by diasporic individuals to perform and retain their identities; uncover the importance of flow and fluidity in the making of sacred space; and evidence the value and efficacy of the use of photographs in social research. Of Gods, Gifts and Ghosts is a ground-breaking exploration into the intersections between visual sociology, cultural geography and creative photographic practice. A visual monograph that gives equal importance to image and text, it interrogates the tensions between sacred and profane, official and unofficial, state and individual, physical and spiritual, peeling away the myriad layers of the spiritual imagination.
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How do individuals inscribe their spiritual identities and diasporic ethnicities in the city? Through a series of sociological and photographic essays, Terence Heng maps the various rituals, collectives, individuals and events that characterise Chinese religion practices in Singapore. From spirit mediums to the Hungry Ghost Festival, each chapter engages with the social, the spatial and the ephemeral, and in so doing it will explore the significance and relevance of Chinese religion in a secular nation-state; reveal the strategies and tactics used by diasporic individuals to perform and retain their identities; uncover the importance of flow and fluidity in the making of sacred space; and evidence the value and efficacy of the use of photographs in social research. Of Gods, Gifts and Ghosts is a ground-breaking exploration into the intersections between visual sociology, cultural geography and creative photographic practice. A visual monograph that gives equal importance to image and text, it interrogates the tensions between sacred and profane, official and unofficial, state and individual, physical and spiritual, peeling away the myriad layers of the spiritual imagination.

Terence Heng is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of Visual Methods in the Field: Photography for the Social Sciences (Routledge, 2016), and his work has been featured in Area, The Sociological Review, Cultural Geographies and Visual Communication. He is the 2015 winner of The Sociological Review's Prize for Outstanding Scholarship.

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<P>1. Introduction</P><P>2. Visualising the (Spiritual) City</P><P>3. The Social Dead, The Agentic Spirit</P><P>4. The Hungry Ghost Festival and Aesthetic Juxtaposition</P><P>5. <I>Tang-ki</I> as Embodied Spiritual Capital and Arbiters of Sacred Space</P><P>6. Intimate Sacred Spaces -- The Body and Home</P><P>7. The Ebb and Flow of Sacred Spaces</P><P>8. Movement and Motion in Sacred Flowscapes</P><P>9. Conclusion</P><P>Epilogue</P>

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